Evan Kerkhoven steered a golf cart past row after row of hyacinths just beginning to bloom inside a massive greenhouse off State Route 3 in King George County.
Unlike many commercially grown hyacinths, the ones Netherlands-based Bloomia is growing here aren’t destined to be sold for their bulbs or as potted plants.
These hyacinths will be shipped to grocery stores for sale as cut flowers with part of their bulb intact, said Kerkhoven, Bloomia’s sales and purchase director. This technique provides the energy the fragrant flowers need to continue to grow and open once they’re placed in water.
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